Opera Choruses is a collection of 35 classic opera choruses, skilfully arranged as separate concert works, all with excellent English singing translations and practical keyboard reductions.
The accompanying orchestral material for all titles in the collection is available on hire.
Some items from this volume are available separately as leaflets in the Oxford Choral Classics Octavo series.

Contents

• Beethoven: Prisoners' Chorus (Fidelio)
• Berlioz: Roman Carnival (Benvenuto Cellini)
• Bizet: Habanera and March of the Toreadors (Carmen)
• Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
• Donizetti: Chorus of Wedding Guests (Lucia di Lammermoor)
• Gounod: Soldiers' Chorus (Faust)
• Handel: Chorus of Enchanted Islanders (Alcina)
• Leoncavallo: Bell Chorus (Pagliacci)
• Mascagni: Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana)
• Mozart: Priests' Chorus (Die Zauberflöte)
• Mozart: Voyagers' Chorus (Idomeneo)
• Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene (Boris Godunov)
• Puccini: Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly)
• Purcell: Dido's Lament and Final Chorus (Dido and Aeneas)
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Procession of the Nobles (Mlada)
• Rossini: Prayer (Moïse)
• Rossini: Villagers' Chorus (Guillaume Tell)
• Tchaikovsky: Waltz Scene and Chorus of Peasant Girls (Eugene Onegin)
• Verdi: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco)
• Verdi: Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore)
• Verdi: Triumphal Scene (Aida)
• Verdi: Rataplan (La Forza del Destino)
• Verdi: Brindisi (La Traviata)
• Verdi: Chorus of Scottish Refugees (Macbeth)
• Verdi: Soldiers' Chorus (Il Trovatore)
• Verdi: Witches' Chorus (Macbeth)
• Wagner: Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin)
• Wagner: Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhäuser)
• Wagner: Procession and Chorale (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)
• Wagner: Sailors' Chorus and Spinning Chorus (Der Fliegende Holländer)
• Weber: Huntsmen's Chorus (Der Freischütz) 

Pages: 370
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press